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TIL that some people use live pigs to practice tattooing on. After the pigs die, one man sells their tattooed skin.

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MeKL0 TIL in 2014 a stray cat kept wandering into the lynx enclosure at the St. Petersburg Zoo in Russia in search of food. She was later adopted by the zoo after she and the lynx became friends.
DQdQD TIL the number of banking tellers in the US rose from 300,000 to 600,000 with the introduction and spread of ATMs
69WLl TIL that Michael Jackson was, at one point, one of the biggest song owners on Earth, which included the majority of Beatles songs. And who gave him the idea to acquire song rights? None other than Sir Paul McCartney himself.
9Z0X TIL George Washington vowed never to set foot on English soil — so when London’s National Gallery erected a statue of the president in 1921, the state of Virginia sent a ton of earth for him to stand on.
xVPOD TIL of the Marquis de Favras, who, on reading his death warrant, said “I see that you have made three spelling mistakes”